Content freshness
With Windows Server 2008, Microsoft introduced a setting called Content Freshness protection to protect DFS shares from stale data. DFS also use a multi-master database similar to Active Directory. It also has a tombstone time limit similar to AD. It is 60 days by default. So, if there was no replication more than that time and a re-enabling replication in a DFS member, can create stale data. This is similar to lingering objects in AD. To protect from this, we can define a value for MaxOfflineTimeInDays. If the number of days from the last successful DFS replication is more than MaxOfflineTimeInDays, it will prevent the replication. In such a situation, you will be able to see event 4012. After Windows Server 2012, this ...
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